The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is an agency of the

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within the state

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that operates the state's

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s, jails and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. The state incarcerates 273 women per 100,000 population, the highest rate of female incarceration in the world, ahead of all other states and foreign nations.

History

On 1 January 1986 a two-day riot began at the

West Virginia State Penitentiary The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic-style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1876 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training f ...

resulted in three inmate deaths. The former Salem Industrial Home for Youth was converted into an adult prison, the Salem Correctional Center, in 2015. All of the division's facilities are overcrowded and understaffed. Press reports in late 2017 indicated the division was short three hundred correctional officers. Press reports in early 2018 showed that pay for correctional officers in the state ranked 49th in the nation. New correctional officers started at $24,664, about twelve dollars an hour. From February to July 2018, National Guard troops supplemented the overworked officers. At the end of that period, the Fire Marshal's Office continued to support the division. Until July 1, 2018, the agency was simply the "West Virginia Division of Corrections" and only operated the adult prisons. On July 1, 2018 the agency absorbed the former West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services and the former West Virginia Regional Jail Authority and assumed its current name.

Facilities

Community Correctional Facilities

Adult Correctional Facilities

County Owned Contract Facilities

Regional Jails

Juvenile Correctional Facilities

Youth Reporting Centers

Fallen officers

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References

External links

Official website of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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